The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-09

and thirteen deaths have occurred.
The North Atlantic squadron had an
imaginary attack on old Fort Adams, near
Newport, r. l., on the ID. After the affair
the basieged and besiegers had q lunch to-
gcther.
ROBERT GARRETT, it was announced at
New York on the I'd, had disposed of his
interest in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
to a syndicate OF English and American
capitalists. The deals were carried through
by Drexel, Morgan q Co.
THE WEST.
THE assets of s. N. Matson, the bankrupt
Chicago jeweler, are placed at s25o, 27l and
the liabilities at Sis, 600.
THOMAS G. KNOTT, OF New Albany. Ind,
has been arrested for Offering to sell sup
plies of ten dollar counterfeits at a big dis
count.
PROF. FORBES reports chinch bugs gen.
eral in Illinois.
A HEAVY flow Of natural gas has been
struck on the Indiana side of the Ohio
river, twenty-five miles from Louisville,
XIV. II 1t keeps up it will be piped TO that
city.
WHILE hands were threshing on the farm
Of Lynch Curtis, near Flint, Mich, re-
Gently the grain stacker caught fire and
while the men were fighting the fire the
steam boiler exploded, killing Daniel
Steeger outright and severely injuring
William lockwood, John Bennett and three
young women, who were assisting.
THE Wisconsin Central engineers threaten
to strike against II. S. Barnes, superintend-
ent of machinery in the shops at Waukesha
for some hidden reason.
Mrs. SHIELDS, who was to have been
hanged at Tahlequah, l. T., for killing her
illegitimate grandchild, has been respited
to November 1.
B. T. HUTCHINSON, one of the most promi-
nent members of the Chicago Board of
Trade, was suspended by the Board of Di-
rectors recently for ninety days. The
cause of the suspension was ostcnsibly
put and call' trading. 1t was, however,
animated that the real cause was personal
bitterness against Hutchinson because of
his attempt to wreck the wheat crowd re-
Gently, when the Kcrshaw corner bursted.
The extensive works of the st. Louis Car
Wheel Company were destroyed by fire the
other night. The loss was estimated at
about SlOo, 600, fully insured.
AT Meadville, Ariz., recently in q quarrel
over the ownership Of a mine, Albert Mead
killed three men and was himself killed by
Fred Mead, kinsman. The coroner's jury
acquitted Fred Mead.
THE first litigation growing out Of the
Chatsworth horror started on the 3lst ut
Peoria, ILL.,, in the shape of nineteen dam
age suits, aggregating Sl27, 800. which were
begun ia the circuit court. Ten are 5000
each, all death cases. The others are for
injuries, and demand various sums, reach
In one instance $4,000.
THE saw mills of Kimball & Clark
about six miles west of Hurley, Wis, were
totally destroyed by fire the other morning
Loss, 5000 No insurance.
Two engines met in collision on the st.
Paul & Duluth road at St. Paul, MIMI, the
other day, both engineers being terribly
injured and the engines wrecked.
GEORGE S. HALL, a farmer, was burned
to death recently by the burning Of j. II.
Coles barn at Detroit, Mich.
CONGRESSMAN O'NEILL, of ST. Louis, Mo,
witnessed the evictions at Herbertstown,
Ireland, recently.
An aeronaut named Blakeslv fell from a
trapeze bar at Princeton, Mo-, on the 3lst
when his balloon was at height of 400
feet and he was horribly mashed 10 death.
COMPLAINTS are made in Nevada Of stock
companies, principally alien, lording it over
the settlers Of portions of that State. An
Investigation has been ordered.
COLoRow and his band returned to their
reservation at Ouray, Col, on the 9th, thus
closing the war.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES was thrown
from tally-ho coach near Los Angeles,
Cal, on the 3lst and had his right leg
broken at the ankle. Several others sus-
tanned slight injuries
GRAVEYARD insurance companies are
causing trouble in Indiana. They have been
driven out of Michigan.
ISRAEL LUCAS, the county treasurer of
Wapakoneta. o., has disappeared. His de-
falcations were put at $50 900.
Mrs. MCGARIGLE, wife OF the escaped
boodler, has disappeared from Chicago.
Iowa Democrats met at Des MONIES on
the ist. Major I. j. Anderson was nomi-
mated for Governor; j. NJ. Elder, Lieuten-
ant-Governor; Supreme Judge, Charles s.
Fogg; Superintendent of Public Mstruc-
ton, n. H. W. Sayer.
JosIAHTEIRILL, for the murder of Charles
Phelps in Meigs County, was hanged in the
Jail at Columbus. o., at midnight on the 1st
The Rai'ardy Age of Chicago, says: at
now seems probable that the number of
miles of new road constructed in the United
States during 1887 viii be about 12,OuO.
This figure is the greatest on record. Kan
sas still continues far in the lead over the
other States in the work of railway con
struction.n
The Tonic basin country in Arizona has
been the scene OF more murders. Eleven
murders were committed in two weeks.
The two factions were fighting over the
possession Of a spring.
THE engine on the east bound Leadyil,c
express, which left Saliia, Col, on the ID.
went through bridge at Beaver creek,
killing Engineer Shaw and two others, enc
being a tramp, with several wounded. che
accident was due to large rock falling
from the side of the canyon and crushing
through the bridge.
By the explosion OF a delayed blast near
Monroe. WIS, recently William Krerl was
terribly mangled and killed, one arm being
hurled 100 feet from the body.
THE oil producers Of Central Ohio have
formed company to market their own pro-
ducts without regard to the Standard Oil
Company.
The magnificent abbey and college of St.
Mclnrad, located at Indiantown, Spencer
County, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
ID, including valuable library of 1900
rare coins. and large museum. The total
loss was fully Sooo,0o0; no insurance.
A TRoTTING race lit up by natural gas
took place At Fostoria, O., the other hight.
THE SOUTH.
Disastrous foods were reported in the
country tributary to Fort Worth, Tex. on
the 3bth. Fourteen drownings were SAID
to have occurred.
GENERAL SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER was
as Governor of Kentucky on
the 3C;h.
The firm of Nanzesherner 4 Klein tho